Timeline of how Tehelka unfolded for Tejpal

Tehelka's founder-editor Tarun Tejpal has made headlines for all the wrong reasons this time.

“A bad lapse of judgment, an awful misreading of the situation, have led to an unfortunate incident…” he wrote in the email to Tehelka's managing editor Shoma Chaudhury after being accused of sexually assaulting a junior colleague.

November 18, 2013The young journalist writes an email to managing editor Shoma Chaudhury detailing the alleged sexual assault. Demands inquiry according to the guidelines laid down in the Supreme Court’s Vishakha judgment and an apology from Tejpal.

File photo of Tarun Tejpal.

November 20, 2013Tejpal sends an email to Chaudhury, admitting there had been a “bad lapse of judgment” and an “awful misreading of the situation”. Says he is going to “recuse” himself from the magazine’s editorship for six months as “penance” for his “misconduct”.

Chaudhury forwards Tejpal’s email to Tehelka staff, adds a short note saying the magazine had responded to the “untoward incident” with the “right thought and action.”

Tejpal’s email and Chaudhury’s forwarded version are leaked and posted on a file-sharing website. News spreads on social media websites.

The young journalist’s email with the details of the alleged sexual assault is leaked and begins to circulate.